The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. This is impressive. The numbers are still not comparable to those of Quest, but they are still very good.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This democratizes advanced AR capabilities like graphics creation and includes tools like Unity , Amazon Sumerian and 8th Wall. billion by 2023. Our recent analysis of Adobe Aero is another example. Adding up all three categories, it’s a $1.44 billion market, growing to $20.3

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Here are some of the top events to consider in 2023. MWC 2023 February 27th to March 2nd, 2023, Barcelona MWC is one of the biggest events in the world for companies interested in connectivity and technology. and how XR and AI can work together.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Roblox was already on App Lab, where it had more than one million downloads, and now is going to be available on the official Quest store Asgard’s Wrath 2, coming on Quest Store on December 15th, 2023. Also, it lacks integrated audio, which in 2023 is a big issue.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The Immerse Global Summit 2023 , now part of the Metacenter Global Week event, is just around the corner. Here’s everything you can expect from the Immerse Global Summit and Metacenter Global Week in 2023. What is Immerse Global Summit 2023? What is MetaCenter Global Week?

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

billion by 2023. So it includes game engines like Unity , AR experience creation like Amazon Sumerian , or Web AR enablement like 8th Wall. Amazon Sumerian lowers AR creation barriers. Source: Amazon. Lastly, there’s AR-as-a-service (ARaaS). With advertising, brands pay for AR development and media activation.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

billion by 2023. Game engines like Unity have been doing this for a while with creation tools for 3D worlds. Other creation tools include Amazon Sumerian. The biggest projected revenue sources in enterprise AR software will be ARaaS for media, retail, commerce and gaming.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 5, 2019

It includes Unity , Amazon Sumerian and Adobe Aero. billion by 2023. And the subset of that group that actively uses and is trained in AR creative production stands at 720,000 today, growing to just over 6 million by 2023. For more, check out the full infographic from Unity below and more about its study here.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. This year, leading names like Deborah Oyeyinka from Unity Technologies , and Kristofor Mellroth of Xbox are set to attend.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

million tickets in 2023 and it has just opened its 50th worldwide location. More info Sandbox VR plans to open 280 locations over the next 4 years After the troubles it had during the lockdowns, Sandbox VR is now stronger than ever and it plans to open over 280 locations over the next 4 years thanks to its franchising program.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 16, 2019

billion by 2023. So it includes game engines like Unity, AR experience creation like Amazon Sumerian, or Web AR enablement like 8th Wall. Amazon Sumerian lowers AR creation barriers. Source: Amazon. Lastly, there’s AR-as-a-service (ARaaS). With advertising, brands pay for AR development and media activation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

NVIDIA announced on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2023 it had expanded its CloudXR software developer kit (SDK) to deliver more scalable, customisable extended reality (XR) experiences for enterprises and developers. This included adopters of the Omniverse such as Amazon, Deutsche Bahn, and others.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Who doesn’t want to do that can still use his/her Oculus account to log in until 2023 , but he/she won’t be able to use all the social functionalities of the device (like Venues, Horizon, etc…). After 2023, the devices won’t be guaranteed to work with an Oculus login. China is launching real name identification in games.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Apple Vision Pro Apps: The Apple Apps During WWDC 2023, Apple’s debut of the Apple Vision Pro drew much attention to the existing Apple tools that would work on the headset. Plus, Unity offers a range of authoring tools to users who want to get involved with VisionOS.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

O3DE initially began as Amazon Lumberyard , built on top of the CryEngine game platform technology. Amazon donated the project to the Linux Foundation in 2021, and O3DE became fully open sourced, with an Apache license. Plus, Unity and Unreal both have free options. What is O3DE?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. 2022-2023 are the years when VR should grow a lot (Image by Road To VR). Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However, with 2024 shaping up to be a monumental year for XR, with Microsoft, NVIDIA, Amazon, and Apple all putting major stakes and investments into the space, what companies do today could greatly influence the future of work. Snap, Amazon Expand In-App AR eCommerce Opportunities.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Photo by Rahul Chakraborty on Unsplash By far the most popular is the Amazon Alexa with about 69% share of the U.S. The Wait Is Maybe Over Tech observers following the product development closely have speculated that Apple will release their AR glass by 2023.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2023

“A Gemba masterclass is entirely interactive — it’s 3D, immersive, and we use the same software that 90% of video games are created in ( Unity ),” Gemba CEO Nathan Robinson told TechCrunch.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Popular games on Roblox in January 2023. For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. By then, compute at the start of 2023 compute will seem like a rounding error again. Adopt Me!”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. It will transform the PC software into just a lightweight runtime to: Make the Quest work with the Link on SteamVR Use old content bought on the Rift Store Make developers debug the apps they are making in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

It projects continuous growth for VR, with Enterprise VR revenues to reach $4.26B by 2023. by 2023 , 45% of all XR revenue. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Amazon has announced some weeks ago “Wavelength”, a new offering of its AWS services, that should provide “single-digit latency” over 5G networks.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. But still, 3 years ago, no one would have bet on Sandbox VR still making millions in 2023, so this is in any case a remarkable result. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Apple AR glasses may be released in 2022–2023. In 2023, instead, the company should release a pair of sleek AR glasses for everyday usage , something that people could also wear in the streets. It is not a product yet, but I hope it can become one soon. Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

This WWDC has not been an exception in this sense, and now all the Apple analysts (including Kuo and Scoble) already envision a reveal of the Apple headset for January 2023. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. This time will be the right time, they say. Other relevant news. Image by Meta). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

The latest Q2 2023 operating loss of Reality Labs has been around $4 billion. I think we’ll understand the real situation Meta is in during this holiday season: Meta is betting a lot on having a fantastic end of 2023, and if it is not going to happen, then the company may be in trouble.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

According to the news outlet DigiTimes, Apple will use Taiwan-based Pegatron as its sole assembly manufacturer for it, and mass production of the device is set to begin “at the end of the first quarter of 2023”. Hello Neighbor VR is not coming only to PSVR 2, but on all headsets in 2023. Some news on content. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Steam VR stats have been pretty negative in September The Steam hardware survey for September 2023 was very negative for VR. A video helps us in taking a decision Funny link At the end of the day, everyone loves Snoop Funny link Quest 3 is already the best selling PlayStation 5 headset on Amazon! Wait, what???

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Last week, Augmented World Expo EU (AWE) 2023 hosted its yearly event highlighting recent innovations in enterprise-grade AR/VR/MR solutions, as well as related emerging technology such as genAI, digital twins, and geospatial tech. He cited ARtillery data, highlighting how, in 2023, XR will become a “$38 billion” industry.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But they claim having also seen a Unity experience running from it (maybe it will be possible to develop for Horizon with Unity, as it is possible with VRChat), so developers may still be able to create more complex stuff. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go. Developer tools.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. The report also highlights that one of the regions where VR may grow more in 2019–2023 is Western Europe. affiliate link).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. Take the survey to help the global community learn more about the skills and technologies necessary to succeed in 2023 and beyond.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Hands-On: Meta’s Reprojection-Free Passthrough Prototype At SIGGRAPH 2023 we tried Flamera, Meta’s research prototype of reprojection-free passthrough AR. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. Yes, they use similar tools, if not the same tool, as AR developers use: like Unity. The tech industry is gearing up for a new paradigm shift. Yes they think in 3D.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week.

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